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Message: [QUOTE="Drew, post: 4014648, member: 3723"] I just really don’t see the incentive from KU’s perspective to join the Big East, especially if you get the money range you’re talking about ($15M ). KU and KSU are legitimately joined at the hip from both a state politics standpoint and a collegiate athletics standpoint. If you’re KU and you can get $15M a year in say a 10-12 team league where you still get to play teams you have historical ties to like ISU, Baylor, OK St and you have a primary rival to play in KSU, and then you add in new hoops games against say SMU, Houston, Memphis, and Cincinnati in addition to the games with WVU and a conference tournament and football title game in Kansas City- that’s certainly more attractive to their alumni and fan base than trying to carve a random independent football schedule and playing basketball games 1000+ miles from home in areas they don’t draw students from against mostly non-peer small private schools. [/QUOTE]